Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...script for A Man For All Seasons, the playwright reminds us that the purpose of the play is to "celebrate the man." Robert Bolt's work does so masterfully. Powerfully written and expressive, Bolt's presentation of Sir Thomas More's life before death stands on its own as a strikingly haunting and beautiful play. Without a doubt, it is something we should all experience. How could we not? We will leave the play feeling more insecure, yet confident in what it should mean to be humbly human. And now we can--this week, director Joseph Gfaller...
...WHAT TO LOOK FOR: Fresh from last year's acclaimed American Buffalo, director Jesse Kellerman, costume designer Lauren Winkler and set designer John Gordon are teaming up again to bring renowned playwright Sam Shepard back to student theater. Simpatico joins a team of designers that has worked together before and an amazing cast with proven talent...
...Broadway show after another." Then he joined the Chicago Tribune as a reviewer-columnist. One night he met the young Midler and said, "You're very funny. You should talk more onstage." He began honing Midler's concert banter. One gig led to another, and voila, a playwright was lost, a quick-draw comic artist born...
...Arthur Miller's next opening night is not on Broadway but at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where composer William Bolcom and librettist Arnold Weinstein have teamed up with the celebrated playwright to turn A View from the Bridge into an opera. Bolcom, whose eclectic tastes run from ragtime to Sondheim, is just the man to set it to music. "I've written some flat-out tunes," he says happily, "and there's even a doo-wop quartet." The cast includes soprano Catherine Malfitano, one of the most powerful actresses in American opera. "She plays a woman who makes...
...setting is a 19th century, New York City theatrical company, but this utterly beguiling film has a European manner about it. Everyone in it is either darkly obsessive or madly grand. The story--Turturro is a playwright struggling to finish a play--is an excuse for a lot of ill-considered, utterly forgivable behavior by a wonderful cast, in which Katherine Borowitz is calmly radiant as the company's leading lady, Christopher Walken deliriously funny as a drama critic. The direction is self-consciously sober, lending an odd, artful weight to the prevailing giddiness...